True or False
People who stutter are more likely to have family members who stutter.
What is.... True
Trying to avoid stuttering can cause tension in these places.
What are head, neck, shoulders, face, jaw, throat, chest?
A treatment that focuses on communication and quality of life.
What is speech therapy?
A disfluency consisting of repeating sounds (t-t-t-turtles)
What is a repetition?
Times when people who stutter may experience spontaneous fluency
What is whispering, singing, or speaking in unison?
People who stutter can predict when they are about to stutter.
What is ..... True
This part of people who stutter is different from other people.
What is the brain?
A device that enhances fluency temporarily.
What is delayed auditory feedback?
A disfluency that involves restarting a phrase or sentence. (I want.. I want a Big Mac)
What is a revision?
Stuttering is seen in these languages across the world.
What is all languages?
Speech therapy for children who stutter looks the same as speech therapy for adults who stutter.
False
The larynx (your voice box) is made up of these types of organs.
What is bones, cartilage, muscles, and membranes! It's complicated in there.
An outdated practice focused on controlling and hiding your stutter.
What is fluency shaping?
What is a block?
Using tactics like switching out words or avoiding speaking to hide stuttering.
What is covert stuttering?
It's helpful for someone who stutters when you finish their sentence for them and avoid looking directly at them.
What is.... False! (and also rude)
What muscles help support your lungs during speech?
The abdominals! (the diaphragm is strictly for breathing)
A form of therapy that focuses on internal beliefs, thoughts, and feelings, and the behaviors that follow.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
A disfluency characterized by inserting words like "um" "like" or "uh" into sentences.
What is an interjection?
Stuttering is more common in this population.
What is children? (fun fact: 5% of children stutter and spontaneously begin speaking fluently, compared to 1% who stutter for life)
Stuttering is okay.
True!
The area in the brain that appears different in people who stutter.
Therapy focused on embracing the identity of someone who stutters and decreasing the fear of stuttering.
What is avoidance reduction therapy?
A disfluency that consists of an elongation of a sound, usually a vowel or fricative. (sssssssssss-sunday)
What is a prolongation?
Similar to stuttering, this way of speaking is characterized by rapid disorganized speech.
What is cluttering?